Ceres criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of power plant carbon pollution standards and removal of the agency’s authority to limit future power plant emissions. The nonprofit advocacy organization said the decision would reduce regulatory certainty, undermine investment in domestic clean energy technologies and manufacturing, raise electricity costs and weaken U.S. competitiveness. Ceres linked the repeal to broader efforts to roll back the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding and California’s Clean Air Act waivers. It cited previous support from companies, power providers and investors for consistent emissions regulation, arguing that such standards have encouraged innovation while allowing reasonable compliance timelines. Ceres urged businesses and investors to support a legal challenge to the Endangerment Finding repeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Ceres warns EPA power plant emissions repeal will raise costs and weaken clean energy investment
Ceres warned that the EPA’s repeal of power plant carbon pollution standards would weaken investment certainty, increase electricity costs and damage U.S. competitiveness. It urged businesses and investors to support a legal challenge to the related repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding.